Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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